Animal Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

— Thomas Huxley

“Our class owes its uniqueness to mothering and lactation; indeed that is why it is called ‘mammalia’, after the mammary glands.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Such are the inconsistences of humans in uniform, that the same endothermic vertebrates, which were believed a blessing, an aid to nostalgia, a sign…

— John Lewis-Stempel

In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found in deserts…

— Erik Fosnes Hansen

Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study…

— Roger Tory Peterson

We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover will prove. And if the Thinker thinks passionately enough, the Prover will prove the thought so conclusively that…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest…

— Jay Leno

Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough…

— Frank B. Salisbury

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

— Aldous Huxley

In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

The development of the Vertebrate proceeds from an axis upward, in two layers, which coalesce at the edges, and also downward, in two layers,…

— Karl Ernst von Baer